Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cleric was appointed to each infantry regiment during the Civil War. After the War between the States, some of the chaplains were assigned to permanent positions at Army forts and posts. In 1867, a bill of major importance was passed in Congress which put the chaplains on an equal footing with other commissioned officers...
...future belongs to those who go down the line unswervingly for the liberal principles of both political democracy and economic democracy regardless of race, color or religion. In a political, educational and economic sense, there must be no inferior races. The poll tax must go. Equal educational opportunities must come. The future must bring equal wages for equal work regardless of sex or race. . . . The Democratic Party cannot long survive as a conservative party. . . . Democrats who try to play the Republican game inside the Democratic Party always find that it just can't work on a national scale...
...address you today* I am doing so for two reasons: first, so that you shall hear my voice and know that I personally am -It was 12:59 a.m., Berlin Time. unhurt and well and, second, so that you shall hear the details of a crime that has no equal in German history...
Gibson Jr., ex-attorney, took Hastie's place. Much of the Army's official policy on Negroes has come down from this body. The Army early rejected the idea that it was possible to give "equal" (i.e., nonsegregated) treatment to soldiers of both races...
...right wing progressive union" which "would bring about the most far-reaching changes only within our democratic framework." Dubinsky, says Stolberg, is a social politician equal to his times. For he understood that "the New Deal signalized a drastic reorientation in our society. It marked a real break with the past. The old voluntaristic drives, the 'rugged individualism' of both capital and labor, had lost their momentum. ... In its original impulses the New Deal was an American variant of European collectivisms - trying to function within our traditional system. Labor is at the very center of this social revolution...